quagga
IPA: kwˈægʌ
noun
- A southern-African subspecies of plains zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.
- Short for quagga mussel. [A mussel, Dreissena rostriformis, originally from Ukraine but present as an invasive species in the United States.]
Examples of "quagga" in Sentences
- The quagga mussel is a filter feeder.
- Includes rare dodo and quagga skeletons.
- The Quagga can be unlocked in the computer game .
- A quagga photo would be essential before a merger.
- Quagga is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra.
- Henry is the most quagga looking zebra at the moment.
- There is a similar project trying to recreate the Quagga.
- They revised the subspecies of the Plains Zebra Equus quagga.
- An attempt of some people to recreate the quagga by selective breeding.
- However, the okapi is no relation of the quagga, horse, donkey, or zebra.